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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Ritley
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Man, now I want to watch The Wizard. Shit was awful, but it’s a nostalgia hit anytime I see SMB3
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Caeden
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SNES had some wicked expensive games. Street Fighter II Turbo, Super Street Fighter II, and Final Fantasy VI (III) I recall topping $70
Caliane
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the list and voting system is baffling if you go down it.
#13. atari 2600 pacman.
7million sold in 83. "flop". whoever is doing this is retarded.
while that link says this,
so, 7million out of 12, with 5million unsold is still a huge success. 8m sold out of 12 is an even bigger one...
literally the best selling atari 2600 game of all time.
List of best-selling Atari 2600 video games - Wikipedia
so lets look at grim fandango.
curse of monkey island released the year prior in 97. it took 12 years to hit "Tiller recalled total sales between 700,000 and 800,000 copies in 2009.[22]"
full throttle in 95 was expected to sell about 100k, and broke 1 million. the first lucasarts adventure to do so. Full Throttle (1995 video game) - Wikipedia
def just seems like reasonable sales numbers for point and click at the time. even if its "dissappointing". that still not a colossal failure unless the devs are just stupid.
what was the final fantasy that had insane projected sales numbers? was it ff14 at launch? 11? which one was that? I want to say it was around diablo3 in release, it was a big talking point on the insane ballooning of dev costs around that time.
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k more I think it wasn't either mmo. I do think whatever game I am thinking off, was around d3. I want to say it had 200m budget and they thought they were going to get 7m+ projected sales, around the time d3 hit 9m. and whatever it was hit closer to 1m. watchdogs maybe? (no that was the next year, but hit 10m sold)
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Caeden
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Rural KY was a gaming desert. We had a Walmart and a Kmart. They usually had 3 copies of Super R-Type and 10 copies of Paperboy for SNES. So I’d pre-order like one of 10 copies that a Babbages would get and drive the 45 minutes to get it.
I had to mail order Final Fantasy IV
I had to mail order Final Fantasy IV
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Mist
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SMB3 is definitely an amazing game, a stunning achievement for an 8-bit cartridge.
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Gavinmad
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Financially it wasn't a flop because there was no internet to instantly spread the word about the game being an absolute piece of shit compared to the arcade version. It did do irreparable damage to the Atari brand name and was a big part of why ET turned out to be such a disaster.
Siliconemelons
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This movie hit me hard, i do not know why i must have been the perfect age and demographic - i still love it
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Caeden
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I actually never owned secret of mana. FF6 was definitely over 70. I might still have my receipt.
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Daidraco
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Im trying to remember the reason. Something about localization? Or something like that. Just know we paid out of the ass for Phantasy Star 2 because of some weird circumstance. My mom blew a fucking fuse when she found out how much I spent on that game even though I earned that money myself.
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Noodleface
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Caeden
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Bah. Didn’t have it. Did find receipt for super Metroid though. 1994 was date.
I still have the box, map and instruction manual with FF3/6
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Siliconemelons
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I got illusions of Gia because it was a 49$ game vs SoM that was 69 @ ye ol paper slip toys r us.
We never got FF4 or 6 (2/3) bc they were I believe at times 80 … my bro always borrowed them from his friends at school
Wasn’t even ff7 an expensive psx game?
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Caeden
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Yeah. That’s also Walmart Layaway. I would have been 14 or 15 then. We were poor. I never had a summer job because I worked on my grandfathers farm. I wasn’t paid because he said he fed me and was paying my college. My only random sources of incomes were odd days off to do work elsewhere for people in the church and I got $1 per A on my report card.
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Caeden
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I dunno. I didn’t buy a psx until it was dirt cheap. I had an N64. Blind loyalty and Zelda.
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Siliconemelons
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Fist job was price work, like .04 a piece - got thru summer , only 1 or 2 days a week for 4 or so hours each, but as a kid seemed forever, bought StarFox 64 w the RUMBLE PACK, it was like 83$ after tax at the wal mart, when electronics was this hub in the middle of the store.
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